Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Yeah. Well, it's a community. Yeah.
This is like, it's like my baby. It's like my first product I took off and I don't really know if I want to sell it. It's like something you will be nice when you, you know, when you're old, that you're still working on this, you know, it's like a, it has like a mission, which is like, um, People should travel anywhere and they can work from anywhere and they can meet different cultures.
And that's a good way to make the world get better. If you go to China and live in China, you'll learn that they're nice people. And a lot of stuff you hear about China is propaganda. A lot of stuff is true as well. But it's more, you know, you learn a lot from traveling. And I think that's why it's like a cool product to like not sell. AI products.
I have less emotional feeling with AI products like Photoguy, which I could sell. Yeah.
Yeah.
And the meaning it gives you, right? There's a very famous like depression after startup found a seller company. Like they're like, this was my, this was me. Who am I? And they immediately start building another one. You know, they never can stop. So I think it's good to keep working, you know, until you die, just keep working on cool stuff and you shouldn't retire.
You know, I think retirement's bad probably.
I think I'm not so good working with other people. Not like I'm crazy, but like I don't trust other people.
Yeah. And I don't want to have like this consensus meeting where we all like, you know, you have like a meeting with three people and then you kind of get this compromise result, which is very European. Like it's very, in Holland we call it poldermodel, where you put people in a room and you only let them out when they agree on the compromise, right, in politics.
And I don't think, I think it breeds like averageness. You know, you get an average idea, average company, average culture. You need to have like a leader or you need to be solo and just do it, you know, do it yourself, I think. And I trust some people. Like now I, like with my best friend Andre, I'm making a new AI startup.
But it's because we know each other very long and he's one of the few people I would build something with. But almost never, yeah.
So he codes, I shitpost on Twitter, literally like I promote it on Twitter. We said like product strategy, like I said, this should be better, this should be better. But I think you need to have one person coding it. He codes in Ruby, so also I cannot do Ruby, I'm in PHP.
Never in my life.
I know, it was always just me sitting on my laptop, like, just coding.
Like, there's an AI developer, Philip. I hired him to do the... Because I can't write Python. And AI stuff is Python. And I needed to get models to work and replicate and stuff. And I needed to improve photo eye. And he helped me a lot. For, like, 10 months, he worked in the...
Man, I was trying Python, working with NumPy and Package Manager, and it was too difficult for me to figure this shit out. And I didn't have time. I think 10 years ago, I would have time to sit... you know, go do all nighters to figure this stuff out with Python. I don't have the, and I don't have the, it's not my thing.
I had for one week. Understand. And then it ended because he wanted to rewrite everything in the. No, that's the wrong guy.
He wanted to rewrite. He said, it's jQuery. We can't do this. I'm like, okay. He's like, we need to rewrite everything in Vue, Vue.js. I'm like, are you sure? Can we just like, you know, like keep jQuery? He's like, no, man. Like, and we need to change a lot of stuff. And I'm like, okay. And I was kind of like feeling it like this, you know, we're going to clean up shit.
But then after a week, it's not going to, it's going to take way too much time.
Yeah, but those are the top tier developers. And those are the ones that are tech ambiguous. So they can work with, they can learn any tech stack and they can, And that's like really few, like it's like top 5%. Because if you try higher devs, like no offense to devs, but most devs are not, man, most people in general jobs are not so good at their job. Like even doctors and stuff.
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